Friar Tuck

Please send your contact Tel & Fax numbers also send any detail information you might have on about the contract payment. A.S.AP.

Rev. Rufus Adams.

In response for the phone number I pointed out we were a silent order. From the point of view of the contract details: well, if the President knew them...

Dear Reverend Adams,

Thank you for your letter.

The Order of Nasturtium Monks is a silent order and we do not speak apart
from an hour set aside for this purpose every year on the first of April.

Consequently we do not use telephones. However this restriction does not
apply to the written word. Happily the days of illuminated script on vellum
are long gone and in a concession to the technological age we are permitted
to use faxes and email.

Our fax number is +613 9326 5378. It is, of course, a 24hr fax.

With regard to the details of the transaction, I was rather hoping that you
may know them. As the President himself interested himself in our
remuneration and there cannot be too many pipelines laid in Nigeria I felt
that you would be able to identify our claim. Would it help if I wrote
directly to his Excellency? He said that you would look after the
settlement of our claim.

Sadly, the most untimely death of Friar Spittle has left us a little
uninformed. He was in sole charge of the transaction. I understand that he
had recently made a payment from our funds allocated for renewing reserves
of sack cloth and ashes to someone in Lagos (Mr Okafor? That name sounds
familiar). The payment was for some sort of tax bill.

Please advise me as to whether this is sufficient information. If it is not
I will try to find out some more.

God bless you,

I remain, your humble servant,

Friar Tuck.

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